Senior QA Engineer - Sportsbook

Sportserve; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global sports betting company in Leeds seeks a Senior QA Engineer to join their team. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in QA, focusing on test automation and performance testing, with strong knowledge of web technologies. This role allows for flexible work arrangements and offers exciting opportunities to work on cutting-edge projects with a diverse team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in QA for software development projects.
• Proven ability to create detailed test plans and cases.
• Experience testing web applications UI.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise on performance and automation testing.
• Understand and act upon business requirements for Agile development.
• Execute quality assurance testing through various tools.

Skills

Automation testing

Manual testing

Performance testing

Web technologies understanding

Agile development

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium Web Driver

Appium

SQL

Linux command line (bash)

Job description

Sportserve forms part of a remarkable group of B2C sports betting and B2B sportsbook technology companies, focused on delivering first class sports betting experiences and casino products for our users worldwide. Along with Sportion, TechSpirit, Standard Focus and Sportelligent, we are the driving force behind the world renowned sports betting company and our flagship brand, Dafabet.

Since launching our global hiring initiative, we now employ over 2,000 people worldwide, offering exciting career paths in Technology, Trading, Operations and Media. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and international culture that embraces the global community and acts locally. We offer office based, hybrid and remote work on permanent and consultancy contracts all over the world, making us the true global employer of choice.

About the job :

We’re looking for a Senior QA Engineer to help shape and build the future of our tools and products as part of the Sportsbook team. You’ll contribute to our in-house Sportsbook platform that powers multiple brands, leveraging a modern tech stack. The platform is built for high availability, scalability, and real-time performance.

You’ll help us create and maintain a suite of manual, automation, and performance tests for our web applications and RESTful APIs. It’s a greenfield project with cutting‑edge technologies, and you'll be part of a multi-cultural, geographically distributed team that collaborates online via audio and video conferencing tools.

W hat you'll be getting up to :

• Working as part of the development team to provide technical expertise and support in terms of performance, automation and manual testing.
• Ability to understand, analyse, evaluate and act upon business requirements forming a basis for Agile development approaches.
• Identify components to be tested and define rapid and pragmatic fit for purpose testing in alignment with the rest of development teams.
• Follow best practices, promote industry standards and ensure our products are reliable with an excellent user experience.
• Knowledge of business requirements and their impact on delivery, identify and work together with a business analyst to gather missing requirements.
• Execute software quality assurance testing via performance and automation tools.
• Gather, analyse and summarise test results.
• Be flexible to support your applications outside of working hours during major sport events (in rota with your peers and team mates) or during releases that may happen outside of standard working hours.

R equirements :

• At least 5+ years of working experience in QA working on varied types of software development projects
• Proven experience in creating detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Experience in testing web applications UI using Playwright or Cypress, alternatively Selenium Web Driver or Appium
• Solid knowledge of at least one modern programming language, preferably TypeScript, JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of web technologies.
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks.
• Basic knowledge of SQL.
• Basic knowledge of Linux command line (bash).
• Understanding of continuous integration / delivery.

Desirable skills and experience :

• Experience in manual and automated testing with RESTful Web Services using any of following tools : SOAPUI, Postman, Insomnia, Rest Assured, Karate or JMeter.
• Experienced in performance testing using tools like K6 or JMeter.
• Functional, integration and unit testing using JUnit or TestNG, Cucumber.
• A background in online sports betting and gaming systems would be ideal, but we would love to hear from people who have any frontend testing knowledge and experience.
• We warmly invite applications in English.

Diversity & Inclusion at Sportserve

At Sportserve, we are deeply committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe in building a team that reflects a wide array of backgrounds, skills, and perspectives. Embracing diversity not only enriches our work culture but also drives innovation and excellence. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where everyone’s contribution is valued and respected.

If you’re a passionate about technology and looking to start your career in an international, forward-thinking Sports Betting company, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to become part of our exciting journey!